Military: no negotiations with Kurdish rebels
(AP)
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AP - Turkey's military indicated Tuesday that it would back government efforts to grant more rights to Kurds and improve the economy of their region.
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Kurdish forces killed more than 200 militants :
"The Peshmerga cleared an area of 480 square km of IS insurgents, and took control of the strategic higher areas to the west of Mosul Dam. The militants will not be able to return to the dam," Said Barzani. A large number of IS militants were killed and more than 200 bodies were left on the battlefield. Ref. Source 5
Kurds accused of "Ethnic cleansing" By Syria rebels:
More than a dozen Syrian rebel groups on Monday accused the country's main Kurdish militia of deliberately displacing thousands of Arabs and Turkmens as it pushes deeper into Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) strongholds in northern Syria, amid reports the Kurdish fighters were now inside the strategic border town of Tal Abyad. Ref. Source 6i
60 killed as Kurds secure Kobani after ISIS attack:
Kurdish fighters said they fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobani Saturday and killed more than 60 ISIS militants, two days after the hardline group attacked it with suicide bombers. Ref. Source 9y
Kurdish-US alliance against IS stokes resentment in Syria:
Analysts warn that IS can only be defeated in Syria with support from Sunni Arabs, many of whom are being alienated by what they see as US favouritism towards the Kurdish minority. Ref. Source 4f
Turkey bombs PKK camps with 30 F-16s after 190 militants were killed;
A total of 190 militants have reportedly been killed in two major airstrikes by the Turkish military targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) bases both inside Turkey and northern Iraq, intelligence sources told daily Hürriyet, before 30 F-16s reportedly bombed PKK camps on July 30. Ref. Source 5o
Three Turkish soldiers killed as PKK steps up attacks after air strikes:
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants killed two soldiers and wounded 31 in a suicide attack overnight in eastern Turkey, the army said on Sunday, as violence escalated following Ankara's air bombardment targeting Kurdish militants. Ref. Source 7r